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Cantrina at New York

posted on 6 July 2010
Hello there everyone! As in all family-run companies we’ve been very busy, and so some time has passed since our last newsletter… Here, then, is a little news about our activities over the past few months. Having found an importer in the United States, we went to New York for a brief business trip and we are now looking forward to seeing our wines on the lists of some specialist wine stores and/or exclusive restaurants in Manhattan. In our opinion, New York is a city that offers great opportunities and there even particular products like ours can find the right type of market exposure. At a tasting at the Hudson Hotel our products – especially the Nepomuceno and the Rinè - were highly appreciated, and our American friends suggested that we define our wines as “unconventional” because of the character and original style that set them apart. From this trip to New York we also realized how important the use of QR (or Quick Response) codes is: these, “read” by your mobile phone, enable you to decode information or connect to an Internet site, thus forming a link between physical objects and the web. From the next bottling runs of our new vintages, in fact, we shall apply this code to all our bottles, whether they are destined for Italy or for export markets. We are just about to bottle the  Rinè 2009 and Sole di Dario 2007. As is usual for us, they will only be released when they are ready and therefore not for another one and a half to two years from now. However, we can tell you that they both show really great promise. We are also preparing another experiment: a white wine for which we picked the grapes a few years ago – yet another “open-mindedexercice de style” which we will tell you more about in the near future… A final note about what’s going on in the vineyard. This is a strange and complicated year: the cold winter weather, which dragged on throughout most of the spring as well, did not prevent the vines from undergoing a good, regular bud-break, followed though by a long period of very heavy rains that are now causing us a number of problems as regards vineyard management, both from the point of view of the vines’ health and the work we have to do on the growing plants (trimming the tops of the shoots, eliminating excess leaves and thinning out the bunches). Now we are hoping for a long spell of dry and sunny weather that will help us finish in the best possible way a growing season that started off with a certain amount of difficulty… Cristina and Diego

End of harvest 2018

posted on 27 November 2018
Greetings! The feast day of San Martino, on 11 November, was once considered by farmers the real beginning of the new year, since that day officially concluded the growing season, a year filled with hard work, bitter disappointments or huge satisfaction. It also marked the start of the new one, now filled with hopes, worries, and great projects for the future.

Spring 2018 in the vineyard

posted on 16 May 2018
…and here it is already May… The vineyards this spring went through budbreak right on schedule, or nearly, but the weather in April, which was warm and sunny, advanced vine development, slightly earlier than in past seasons. The shoots are pushing out rapidly now and with a consistency we rarely see, so we are marching with giant steps to that magical, fragrant moment of the flowering of our future clusters.

See you at Vinitaly!

posted on 9 April 2018
After four years of our attendance at Prowein, this year we decided to come back toVinitaly fair. We will share the booth with our friends from FIVI (Pavilion 8 Booth E7 07). We both believe in the Vignaioli Indipendenti phylosophy. See you in Verona, at the fair, also with the opportunity to visit Cantrina, 45 minutes from the fair. Contact us to fix a meeting (mail info@cantrina.it or telephone +39 335 6362137). Cristina and Diego
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